11 Best Restaurants in Luxembourg

This vegan restaurant-café has two levels. Downstairs, the café (Seed) is more of a juice and cocktail bar; above, Beet conjures an upmarket fast-food vibe, dishing up plant-based burgers and soups. The former typically come slathered in a melted vegan cheese that does a decent impersonation of the real thing. A crowd-pleasing blend of falafel, fries, and the lesser-seen picon beer, a pint-size French apéritif made with orange bitters, make this a treat, even if the staff are a little high-handed.  

Despite originally opening in 1907, this restaurant only improves with age. Seasonal specials accompany a fine selection of Luxembourgish dishes, from the classic kniddelen, fried gnocchi-style dumplings with lashings of speck ham or Berdorf cheese, to the typical wäinzoossiss, a thick local sausage in a creamy mustard and wine sauce. It's about 10 km (6 miles) upriver from Remich in the small village of Wormeldingen.

The service might be among the more lethargic in town, but where this café-restaurant truly shines is its setting: perched directly above the waters of the River Our. The menu is pretty standard stuff, with an array of schnitzels catching the eye. Or just come for a coffee and soak in the views. 

This small, homey spot serves large portions at reasonable prices. The pizzas are made with fresh ingredients and baked in a wood-fire oven. The pastas are flavorful and filling.

A slightly eccentric café bar set in a vaulted cellar. There are homemade cakes, organic snacks, decent coffee, and not a single piece of matching furniture. Live music is often held here in the evenings; it's something of an expat institution.  

A pleasant spot for lunch or a quick meal, just next to the theater. It claims to specialize in pizza but, in truth, it does a little bit of everything, usually to a good standard. Large salads, pastas, grilled fish and meat, and even the usual Luxembourgish classics, including kuddelfleck (tripe), judd mat Gardebonnen (smoked pork and broad bean stew), and bouchée à la reine (vol-au-vent and creamy chicken) decorate a menu not short on ideas. 

Directly adjoining the former Mousel brewery, now the Rives de Clausen entertainment district, this comfortable, wood-paneled café serves up heaping platters of local specialties—braised and grilled ham, sausage, broad beans, and fried potatoes—to be washed down with crockery steins of Clausel and unfiltered Gezwickelte beers. New owners have taken over in the last couple of years, but the menu remains very much the same. However, Mousel beers have been brewed at a plant in Diekirch for a long time now.

Arguably Luxembourg's most famous patisserie-café is also the inventor of the "bamkuch," a strange, ribbed pipe of biscuity almond sponge covered in icing. Light lunches are available, with the likes of quiche Lorraine and spinach pie on offer, and there's a quiet terrace on the street. Other outlets include a branch inside the main railway station.

There are lots of theories as to why Luxembourg has so many Chinese restaurants, but there's little argument that Palais de Chine is one of the best. The menu, like the decor, has a touch of French flair. Duck, in all of its variations, has a national following.

The restaurant of the Hôtel de la Sûre also has the best food in town. It's solid brasserie cooking at a decent price (for Luxembourg), where hearty portions of cordon bleu, schnitzel, and steaks slathered in pepper sauce please the belly as much as the senses. You can also just stop by for a coffee and a cake in their café. 

A family business for nearly 50 years, this sweet, unassuming restaurant tucked deep in Parc L'eh is one of Luxembourg's most scenic eateries. The daily menu features hearty homestyle French fare.